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RE: The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd.??
The exponent must be relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1) where p and q are prime
numbers.
Doug
On Thursday, May 28, 1998 4:14 AM, Luis Saiz [SMTP:[email protected]]
wrote:
> OS/390 Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility Application
> Programmer's Guide Version 2 Release 5 Publication No. SC23-3976-02
> :
> http://ppdbooks.pok.ibm.com:80/cgi-
> bin/bookmgr/bookmgr.cmd/DOCNUM/SC23-3976/CCONTENTS
>
>
>
> In several parts of the document it's specified that, as a
> restriction:
>
>
> > The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd.
> >
> It's there any (unknown to me) security reason to be this way, or
> it�s
> an implementation/standard option??
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>